AlobarapReddit Is a Hookup App Now
ghostthanks, I hate it
speckOoh, I don't know. Makes me want to get back in there. Apparently I was following the wrong subreddits all this time
The new tinder
It’s been a hookup app for a long time now.
ThenThreeMoreIf I’d known that I might have stayed
It’s mostly sad cheating old dudes in my experience:/
Given Reddit’s historic demographic that doesn’t surprise me so all.
willyaWhoever wrote this article must’ve just got on Reddit.
ChozoSeriously, this is hardly a new trend for Reddit. There've been tons of hookup subreddits for years now.
Sounds like a disappointment speedrun to me.
chemical_cutthroatI still use 4chan for all my hook up needs. Side note, anyone got the plug on some antibiotics?
> 4chan
It is surprisingly good for trans people.
JimboI know more than one edgy trans person who browsed 4chan back in the day so I’m only… slightly surprised
I never would have thought this, but I’m happy they have a place to go that’s good.
Got the plug and the antibiotics. Where do we meet?
gabe [he/him]If Reddit gets seized and shutdown due to solication under FOSTA-SESTA I will laugh
ZakI won’t. That’s a terrible law and its use should never be celebrated, even against someone we don’t like.
IgnacioThose subreddits are trash. If you're from US, everything can be either easy or difficult. But if you're from another country, don't bother. US-centrism is a real pain.
how DARE you criticize the united states¡!!! this is an outrage! I an angry redditor!!! I will screech about the WEST crumbling and then throw a fit at europeans existence,!
Any device or software that allows people to communicate is going to be used for hook-ups. It’s etched into the machine code at the heart of the internet.
steboit’s weird tho, how do you find people in your area on a site used all across the world
a/s/l?
21/M/Belgium what about you
29/M/Germany
Could I have the coordinates of your anti tank setups?
my front door is pretty effective against tankies
Just make sure your house doesn’t have an Ardennes to go through on the other side!
They have location specific subreddits…
There are subs for specific areas and have been for years. Not that I’d used them, cause I don’t live in the USA. But they are nothing new and I wonder why they are only found out about by people now? Maybe because there’s no other worthwhile content there anymore?
Fair enough but those areas are still fairly large. Are you really going to drive across the country for a hookup? Are people that desperate?
There are subs for certain cities. Houston for example. So people who live in or near that area can meet up. They don’t have to drive across country. I guess there are probably r4r subs for many cities across the US that have lots of reddit users. But I don’t know. I only stumbled over this by chance years ago.
Well there isn’t one for my city. Not that I would care of course…
r/r4r
You click on the banner that advertises local singles in your area ready to hook up now.
ivanafterallYears ago, I had some success with these subreddits. In recent years, not so much. IF you could meet the various requirements to post, you would be flooded with some combination of OnlyFans accounts, literal scam attempts, and/or occasional actual prostitutes. But mostly the first two. More than one girl I reached out to had a long list of rules for guys who wanted to message her. Just a whole bunch of bullshit. And the "local" subreddits are 99.99999% spam accounts.
Man spez getting really desperate
the goods are odd but the odds are good.
Ascend-910These are confusing times, but I am glad I moved
This is basically an ad saying “if you want to get laid visit reddit.” Honestly reddit probably suggested it. They’re going to coin the phrase “reddit and chill.”
“and thirty minutes later a man posted being interested”, “the market is enormous”
Like wow, a guy looking for a hookup, how hard is that to find lol.
Yeah feels like a paid for opinion-publicity. Of course you have to use their shitty app to see NSFW now too so a win win right!!
infyrinIt is uncomfortably horny and yeah I recall there having been talks of people possessing CP and some pedos hiding among Reddit’s numbers there.
So, bound to later see Reddit on the news as to how many members hooked up with underaged individuals. Probably from r/teenagers.
Like there aren’t any pedos hiding amongst lemmy users lmao.
Not going back reddit without RIF (rip 2023), but people on lemmy are high on their own farts thinking it’s not all the same people lmao
I’d say that’s true for any community large enough that statistics apply to it without yielding fractions of people when calculating. Gauss’ curve, for better or worse, seems to apply to everything.
Dizzy Devil DuckyName any social media site/app and I guarantee you’ll find one there regardless of the site. It’s a very open secret that they hide in every single platform out there they can get access to.
Hell, they have been found to even use Mega(dot)nz and weird twatter hashtags to spread it.
The problem with US-centric discussions of CP, is the inability to differentiate between:
- “hooking up with underage individuals from r/teenagers”
- “pedo stopped by cops with a 3 year old stuffed in the trunk of his bike”
- “guy beating his meat to a bunch of drawings”
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Oh yeah I remember those things. All my friends who use reddit have like 20 of those onlyfans bots following them. Like how did that ever become a thing!?
She’s in my area too!
No kidding. I started to receive messages from reddit mods (not the user, but actually coming as “from /r/subname mods”, with phishing/scam links.
Hey maybe let’s not vilify the nsfw subs that are doing nothing wrong. The anti adult content trend recently is really disturbing and is pushing the culture war in the states trying to outright ban porn.
I think it’s more the blending of people advertising their adult content with those presumably looking for genuine connections that people have a problem with. A lot of niche interest subs have rules around self-promotion and people looking to advertise products for what I think are similar reasons.
Yeah all that shit is getting pretty wild. A bunch of stuffy prudes are freaking out about changing social/cultural norms.
I also think this latest war on porn is a low key cover to undermine online security/privacy/encryption.
It’s about control really. The powers that be are afraid people are thinking about how things could be better and they don’t want that.
If you want to control people go after their biological needs.
In the same way that IRC was in the 90s.
Did anyone actually hook up via IRC?
I definitely did. Multiple times.
Lost my virginity thanks to IRC.
Some IRC channels had IRL meetups, people would regularly hook up on those.
a/s/l?
Always has been
Those hookups are full of scams and cops.
Ask me how I know.